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Joan Rivers' acerbic sense of humor dominates E!'s "Fashion Police," but some critics think the 79-year-old went above and beyond the fashion critic's call of duty when she cracked a certain joke about the German-born Heidi Klum's plunging Oscar night gown.
On Monday's episode, Klum's revealing Julien Macdonald number prompted Rivers to joke, "The last time a German looked this hot was when they were pushing Jews into the ovens."
Rivers' comment upset the Anti-Defamation League's Abraham H. Foxman, a Holocaust survivor, who said that as the daughter of Russian-born Jewish immigrants, Rivers should have known the joke crossed a line.
There are certain things about the Holocaust that should be taboo. This is especially true for Jews, for whom the Holocaust is still a deeply painful memory. It is vulgar and offensive for anybody to use the death of six million Jews and millions of others in the Holocaust to make a joke, but this is especially true for someone who is Jewish and who proudly and publicly wears her Jewishness on her sleeve.
The ADL has demanded an apology from the E! network, but don't expect Rivers to take the joke back.
"My husband lost the majority of his family at Auschwitz and I can assure you that I have always made it a point to remind people of the Holocaust through humor," she told The Hollywood Reporter.
According to the Daily Mail, Joan's German-born husband emigrated to Denmark to escape the Nazis. He committed suicide in 1987.
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